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You're right: Sony, ThinkPad, and Nokia are therefore also systems of slavery. How hard can it be to manufacture a product with an off-switch?
by FellowTraveler 13y ago
You're right: Sony, ThinkPad, and Nokia are therefore also systems of slavery.
How hard can it be to manufacture a product with an off-switch?
- superuser2 13y agoI'm guessing you never supported an environment where laptops had hardware switches for the WiFi card. I can't even begin to quantify the amount of support time that wastes. If a users asks for something to happen (like a Skype call) it should just happen. To end-users, having multiple points at which the functionality they want can be switched off is just frustrating, and it costs manufacturers call center time and customer satisfaction. The paranoid can tape over cameras and cut mic cables if they feel it's really necessary. You really might want to consider whether "slavery" is the appropriate word for switches implemented in software.
- FellowTraveler 13y agohttp://sourcefednews.com/xbox-one-is-watching-you/ http://sourcefednews.com/xbox-one-is-watching-you/
- harrytuttle 13y agoThat is by design, not for the sake of convenience.
- harrytuttle 13y agoWe have these things called transistors which allow us to turn things off these days. It's been a long time since we had the big red IBM XT flip switch. Even my calculator doesn't have a physical off switch.